The Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union presents an award-winning documentary film on the current history, politics and personal stories of gay and lesbian marriage: "Tying the Knot."

"Tying the Knot," directed by Jim de Seve, premiered in 2004 at the Tribeca Film Festival. It won 11 film festival awards including Best Documentary at Frameline Film Festival.

Join us Saturday, Feb. 9 from 9:30 a.m. to noon as we watch the film and have a discussion with the director.

Cinema 100
Greenburgh Shopping Center
93 Knollwood Rd. (100A)
White Plains

Tickets at the Door.

Some advocates call it the biggest civil rights issue of our time.

But what is the School to Prison Pipeline?

Affecting hundreds of thousands of students nation wide and in New York state, the School to Prison Pipeline describes local, state and federal education and public safety policies that push students out of school and into the criminal justice system. This system disproportionately impacts youth of color and youth with disabilities.

As part of the NYCLU's continuing Civil Liberties Discussion Series, Chloe Dugger of the NYCLU will discuss the civil rights and civil liberties issues at play in the School to Prison Pipeline.

The New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a new program to engage New York City young professionals between the ages of 24 and 40 in the civil rights/social justice movement.

Are you a young NYCLU supporter who is able and excited to …

- serve as an ambassador for a great organization and contribute your skills and creativity to the forming and shaping of this group,

- recruit your like-minded friends to join,

- devote at least one night a month to attend planning meetings,

- help organize and market events and

- invite friends and colleagues to attend events?

Then join the group! RSVPs required.

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Black men who have sex with men don’t have more sexual partners or more risk behaviors than other men who have sex with men. In fact, studies show black men who have sex with men have fewer sexual partners, on average, than white men who have sex with men and are less likely to use drugs associated with HIV risk.

So why do black men who have sex with men have twice the rate of HIV infections of white men who have sex with men?

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Governor Spitzer, the New York State Assembly and a recent, unanimous New York appellate court decision have said:

I DO! to Marriage Equality. Now Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno must do the same.

Come show your support; speak with folks; get letters signed in support of marriage equality.

Two Locations: LIRR, Penn Station and Kew Gardens, E Train

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Gay Men’s Health Crisis, The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and the New York Civil Liberties Union present "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin."

This event includes a screening of the award-winning documentary followed by a discussion featuring filmmaker Bennett Singer and Walter Naegle, Rustin’s partner.

Join us
Monday, Feb. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The NYCLU Civil Liberties Discussion Series takes place from 7 – 8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month. Each session consists of two parts: a guest speaker and open discussion.

This month's discussion focuses on reproductive rights in New York.

As President Bush has stocked our courts with conservative judges and the federal government continues to erode protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, we must take action to modernize our reproductive rights laws — laws that have not been updated since 1970 — in a way that will ensure healthy futures for us, our sisters, our daughters and for the next generations of New Yorkers.

A clip from "Brother Outsider - The Life Of Bayard Rustin""From the Margins: A look at the Intersection of Race, Gender & Sexuality"

Drawing from the life and work of individuals such as Bayard Rustin and Huey P. Newton, the discussion will delve into the intersecting oppressions of race and sexuality, looking through the critical lens of where we have come from, the current state we are in and the struggle that continues into the future.

The New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a new program to engage New York City young professionals between the ages of 24 and 40 in the civil rights/social justice movement.

Are you a young NYCLU supporter who is able and excited to …

- serve as an ambassador for a great organization and contribute your skills and creativity to the forming and shaping of this group,

New York is the first state in the country to sign a contract with the federal government to implement a national identity card. National IDs would violate Americans' privacy rights by helping to consolidate data and facilitate tracking by the government. The government, your employer and your neighbors don’t need to know where you go or what you buy.

Come to the forum, "Your Papers Please: What the Real ID Act Means for American Values," to learn more about the Real ID Act and how to stop it.

St. John’s Episcopal Church
51 Colonial Circle
Buffalo, NY 14222

A Celebration of Activism with Jim Hightower

Sponsored by Common Cause/New York and New York Civil Liberties Union

This event features New York area activists featured in Jim's new book, including:

Martin Dunn, Dunn Development, Queens
Justin Krebs, Drinking Liberally

And representatives of:

Slow Food USA
Blue/Green Alliance
League of Young Voters
ACORN

Musical entertainment will be provided by the Granny Peace Brigade.

Tuesday, March 11, 7 to 9 p.m.

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Are we really protected by New York's abortion law?

As federal protections of abortion access are weakened, New York’s leading reproductive rights organizations have been asking this question. The Bush administration has filled the courts with ultra-conservative judges that have made devastating decisions regarding women’s health. The Supreme Court’s unprecedented move to uphold the federal abortion ban last April was a wake-up call that we must fight to ensure that New York continues to protect and respect a woman’s ability to make private reproductive health care decisions.

South Suffolk Chapter of the National Organization for Women, Pro-Choice League, Inc., the Suffolk County NYCLU and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. present "Brunch with Bill."

Come hear legendary reproductive and civil rights activist Bill Baird speak on "Choice: Past, Present and Future."

Sunday, March 16
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Snapper Inn
500 Shore Drive, Oakdale

Joining the discussion will be:
Hon. Patricia Eddington (3rd AD)
Hon. Ginny Fields (5th AD)
Hon. Phil Ramos (6th AD)

Since the 1960s, Bill Baird has been fighting for, and securing, our privacy and reproductive rights. Among Baird’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases establishing rights to privacy, birth control and abortion, is Baird v. Eisenstadt, the 1972 case which laid the groundwork for, and was quoted in, Roe v. Wade the following year.

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Click here to view or download the flier (PDF).Join the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Urban Youth Collaborative for a community screening of three youth produced films on New York City school safety and the School to Prison Pipeline.

The evening will include a community gallery and discussions of the issues and ways to take action.

The Big Gay Variety Show!
Monday, March 24, 8 to 10 p.m.
Therapy, 348 W. 52nd St., NYC

Hosted by the NYCLU’s Young Professionals, the Big Gay Variety Show will feature fun and exciting performances by songstress Our Lady J; Another Gay Movie's Michael Carbonaro; Mac Award-nominee Kate Pazakis (The Sexless Years); comedian Jeff Hiller; Melanie Adelman and Ellie Dvorkin from Mel and El: This Show Rhymes; hip hop artist Soce the Elemental Wizard; Transamerica's Bianca Leigh; Todd Buonapane from Broadway's 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; comedienne Poppi Kramer from The Biggest Loser; comedian Shawn Hollenbach; singing sensations The Dreams; and the Sizzle Twins.

What: A forum on GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

GENDA would add gender identity and expression to the list of protected classes in the state's existing Human Rights Law. It would protect transgender individuals and those who don’t fit the stereotyped norm of gender, like a feminine man or masculine woman, from being denied or fired from a job, harassed in the workplace, evicted by their landlords, refused service in a restaurant, given inadequate medical care and otherwise treated as second-class citizens solely because of their gender identity and expression.